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Included patients were aged 40 to 84 years and had any invasive lung cancer from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2019.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposure<\/jats:title>Smoking status.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>The main outcomes were age-specific female-to-male incidence rate ratios (IRRs) of lung ADC by smoking status and tumor stage. Linked data from the TCR, TCOD, NHIRD, Taiwan National Health Interview Survey, and MBIS were used to estimate the age- and sex-specific numbers of cancer-free individuals at midyears from 2011 to 2019 by smoking status. Using the TCR and TCRLF, age-, sex-, tumor stage\u2013, and diagnosis year\u2013specific numbers of patients with lung ADC from 2011 to 2019 by smoking status were estimated.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>A total of 61\u202f285 patients (32\u202f599 women [53.2%]) aged 40 to 84 years (mean [SD] age, 64.66 [10.79] years) in the Taiwanese population of approximately 23 million were diagnosed with invasive lung ADC as their first lifetime cancer between 2011 and 2019. Among smokers, men had higher tobacco use by almost all examined metrics, including nearly twice the mean (SD) number of pack-years smoked (eg, 7.87 [8.30] for men aged 30-34 years vs 4.38 [5.27] for women aged 30-34 years). For 5-year age bands between 40 and 84 years, incidence of lung ADC was significantly higher among females than males for nearly all age groups irrespective of tumor stage and smoking status (eg, for the age group 70-74 years, the female-to-male IRR for late-stage lung ADC among never smokers was 1.38 [95% CI, 1.30-1.50]).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this cohort study, women had higher age- and stage-specific lung ADC incidence rates than men in Taiwan for both never and ever smokers, suggesting the possibility of differential exposures between sexes to risk factors other than smoking and the potential modification of ADC risk factors by sex. 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